The default setting in Q&As is "Recent". However, by clicking on "Popular", I came across this (the most popular thread ever on this forum, with 88 replies):
https://www.writersandartists.co.uk/question/view/192
It seems to have fizzled out some years ago, but I thought that I might revive the idea for a new generation of users on this forum.
NEW RULE: To prevent total hijacking, each entry may be a MAXIMUM of THREE (3) sentences!
Even when this thread disappears from the most recent page(s), please keep it in mind and return to it again and again. Let's see if we can write a novel-length work of beauty and originality! At least set a new record for thread length.
Obviously, styles will change. Genres may also do so. I will try my best to keep it from sliding into a Lord of the Rings or Harry Potter OR Twilight clone. (THAT's a gauntlet thrown down for some of you fanatics! This could be fun!)
p.s. If it's interesting, I'll ask others at La Gr@not@ if we can publish it. Prepare your CVs!!!
I'll begin:
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Aisha wiped the mud out of her eyes before plunging her head in the almost-freezing mountain stream.
"That Jon!" she muttered (filling her mouth with water, the rash girl), "He'll pay for this!"
Shaking her head caused myriad waterdrops to fly out from her long, red hair.
(to be continued...?)
Jon, in a vain attempt to maintain some degree of reality, could only stumble: “I’m afraid that I don’t…”
“Those gooms have dried me out: got any amber fluid on you?” insisted the kangaroo.
“You just watch it or the booze bus will be along to get you to blow in the bag… and I’m getting out before you make with the technicolor yawn: I’ve got to strangle the lizard, myself,” was the wombat’s contribution to the conversation.
...and solisvitrae is probably all wrong: it's been 47 years since I did Latin. What's Latin for "sunglasses", anyone? Solisspeculi? I'll go for that if nobody can come up with a better.
BIG MISTAKE! The kangaroo is - of course - a sheila (bruces don't have pouches), and would, therefore, not have done Nasho (a word that I was too eager to work into the passage). Nor would her passenger have called her "he". So (edited):
A particularly large Red Kangaroo (Osphranter rufus) – carrying a sunglasses-wearing Southern Hairy-Nosed Wombat (Lasiorhinus latifrons solisvitrae) in her pouch (both of them on a long-desired European six-month holiday “to take a squizz at the Pommies and Euros” – startled Jon by landing right in front of him after a six-metre bound.
“Strewth, Cobber, this is a fair dinkum op shop, and I’m as dry as a dead dingo’s donger!” exclaimed the Osphranter.
“Pay no attention to her: she’s just skulled a whole row of gooms, and it’s fried her brain; she doesn't know Christmas from Bourke Street,” explained the Lasiorhinus.
[Thanks to http://alldownunder.com/australian-slang/dictionary-drinks-2.htm]